A state program called Healthy Montana Kids provides free or low-cost health care to kids and teenagers, but it doesn’t pay for prescription birth control if it’s used for preventing pregnancy. Planned Parenthood thinks this policy is a reason Montana is one of two states with a teen pregnancy rate that is rising.Wendy Doely, Executive Director of Flathead Family Planning agrees.“I would like to see kids be abstinent until they are ready to take full responsibility for the consequences of their actions,” says Doely. “But regardless of what we as adults or what parents may feel, kids make their own choices.”